News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir
Author(s):
Fleming, Peter
Copyright: 1936, Scribner’s NY
Specifications: 1st, 8vo, pp.384, photo frontis, 54 bw photos, 2 maps (1 fldg), tan cloth
Condition: dj vg, cloth near fine.
In 1935, Fleming and Ella Maillart undertook a seven-month journey across 3700 miles of desert and upland, through ice and sand, through hunger and thirst from Peking to Kashmir. Harder to find with the jacket. From the collection of American mountaineer Richard Irvin with his signature.